It turned out that Shi Zhaozhen, the governor of the western region, was ordered by the metropolitan governor Guo Xiaoke to inspect the triennial household approval in Jiaohe County.

Since the ninth year of Zhenguan, the number of households in the world has been changed from three grades to nine grades, and every three years thereafter, that is, the population and property of each household have been comprehensively verified in the middle year (meridian year), which is used as the basis for the collection of taxes in the current period.

The seventeenth year of Zhenguan is the year of Guimao, so it is the year of the fixed household. Seeing that half of the month has passed, the other four counties in Xizhou have all completed the fixed households, only Jiaohe County has not yet finished it, and the household department has been urging it, so I sent a long history to inspect it.

And Liu Wencheng was dragging Xizhou's hind legs because of the county's fixed household, and was given a good meal by Zhao Changshi as soon as he met, and his waist at this time was softer than noodles, and he beat his chest several times and made a guarantee, Zhao Changshi promised that he would not add oil and vinegar after going back. But he sternly ordered Liu County, "After the three days are set, I will go and talk to Guo Dudu later." ”

So Liu Xianling sent Lord Zhao out all the way, he kept sulking in his heart, and he didn't dare to attack, and the little smile on his face was also squeezed out and piled up there.

Today, in front of Zhao Changshi, I acted like this again, and when I learned that the matter was here with the grass merchant Jia Fugui, I was so angry that I almost went crazy, and said in my heart that it was a matter of fixing the household, if it weren't for the fact that your surname Jia did everything possible to set a third-class good and pay less taxes, why would I eat this deflated.

The two fires roasted the chest and back like this, which should be unlucky for Liu Zhutou, even if Master Jia is here, he will definitely have an attack. The order of a county didn't care about his identity, so he rushed up and rounded his arm and "snapped" and hit Liu Zhutou with more than a dozen big-eared scrapers, and Liu Zhutou didn't dare to say a word.

Zhao Zhen has been watching from the sidelines for a while, and said in her heart that she didn't expect this tall man to be so difficult, and she was really unforgiving. I wanted to watch it for a while, but I had official business, and I was anxious to go back to the governor to return to the governor, and began to comfort Gao Jun on the side. Liu Xianling also threw the face of his parents behind his buttocks, and slammed at Gao Jun and the three of them.

Jia Gongzi He has seen this kind of formation, usually working nonsense on his own one-acre and three-point land, thinking that he would be invincible in the world for a long time, but today he knew that he had stabbed a hornet's nest. He saw that Liu County, who usually even had to flatter his father, behaved like this, and he was stupid there at the moment, almost peeing in his pants.

And Gao Jun looked at this toss, it was dark, and he was worried about Liu Yurulai, and he didn't know how she was on this day, and Zhao Changshi was still with him, thinking that if he continued to make trouble, it would be over.

So he said, "Lord Zhao, Lord Liu, no matter what you say, I, like the two adults, am also the official of the court, but the two adults are for the people, and the lower officials are just feeding the livestock." Today, in broad daylight, I was kicked in public by this kid surnamed Jia, and I really lost more than my face, thinking about it, I don't have the face to walk out of this Jiaohe County Ya. ”

Seeing that Gao Mu Jian finally spoke, Liu County Ling said hatefully, "Which foot did he kick, see if I don't cut it!" ”

"No, no, usually there is a disobedient animal in my pasture, I just kicked it, and today I only returned this kick, Gao will never dig into it, what do you think the two adults think?"

Liu Xian Ling looked at Jia Gongzi who was kneeling on the ground and trembling, "Brute, what are you waiting for, are you waiting for this official to help you up?" ”

Jia Gongzi was living like a year, listening to the words of the county magistrate, he hurriedly stood up and moved to stand in front of Gao Jun, and said in his heart that he had no choice but to admit it. Look at this tall man and quiet culture, he should be able to hold it with one foot.

Gao Jun was polite with Lord Zhao, saying that Lord Zhao was on official business, and next time he would definitely invite Liu Zhongmu to be a guest guide, and at the same time, he was talking to Liu County Ling to bother, and before going out, he raised his leg to Jia Gongzi, and he didn't see how much strength he exerted, only to hear Jia Gongzi's thigh bone "click", and Jia Gongzi screamed and fell to the ground.

Before going out, Master Gao said to Jia Gongzi on the ground, "Tomorrow, let Lao Tzu go to Liuzhongmu." Then he said goodbye to Zhao and Liu, and led two of his subordinates out.

Where have Liu Wu and Feng Zheng seen such a good show, today they know the methods of the tall people, the whole process is first vertical and then captured, first suppressed and then promoted, and a dignified county order is played around. Liu Wu sighed to himself, "If I have one-tenth of the means of the tall people, I will suffer a huge loss." ”

And Feng Zheng is so old, it is the first time he has seen an official of the state government so polite to a pastoral supervision committee. Lord Gao made nonsense in front of him, and Changshi didn't complain a word, it seems that there is really a heaven outside the sky, why didn't he find out. Both of them made up their minds in their hearts that in the future, only the tall man would be the first to look forward to the tall man and be the best friend of the tall man.

The three of them came out of Jiaohe County, beat horses like flying, and soon arrived at the fork in the road to Liu Wu's house, Liu Wu said, "Lord Gao, it's getting dark, just go to my house, I really want to invite you to drink two sips." ”

Gao Jun said, "I'm also in a hurry to go back, so let's bother another day," so Liu Wu broke up with the two and went home, Gao Jun took Feng Zheng and returned to Liuzhong Ranch.

Entering the valley, Gao Jun looked in the direction of the grass picking house on his horse, where there was only a dead wind lantern, thinking that it was so late, Liu Yuru and the others must have gone back a long time ago. Therefore, the two of them got the horseshoe, and they didn't stop, and galloped back directly.

After changing into robes, Feng Zheng said, "If you don't want to be a big person, you will be invited to a bar." ”

Gao Jun was thinking about Luo Dao and Chen Jiu's daughter-in-law going to Liuzhong County today, and he was really anxious to know how they were doing, so he was busy saying that another day.

At the gate of the ranch, he accidentally bumped into Lot Knife and Luo Quanzheng walked in. When Lot saw Gao Jun, he hurriedly said, "My lord, we came back from shopping, and we didn't see you, and we didn't see Mrs. Liu when we went to the firewood house, and we happened to meet here." ”

Gao Jun asked, "No one in the firewood house?" ”

"No one, it's dark."

Gao Jun muttered to himself, "Are you still picking grass houses?" ”

Feng Zheng said, "When I passed by the grass picking house, I seemed to see two people behind the lamp. ”

Gao Jun said hurriedly, "Why didn't you say it earlier." Returning to the horse and galloping straight to the grass picking house, Feng Zheng didn't know what he was doing wrong, so he also rode a horse and followed. After a while, the two arrived at the grass picking room, and Gao Jun did not wait for the horse to stop, so he flew down and walked towards the grass picking room.

When I got closer, I found that there were two women behind the haystack under the lamp, picking grass there. One is Liu Yuru, and the other is the woman who helped Liu get out of the car during the day.

At this moment, the time is the end of the unitary time, the winter days are short, the sun has already sunk, and the only people who are still working in the grass picking house are Liu Yuru and Yang Yatou.

There are a total of nineteen new female shepherds this time, except for Wang Cailian, who is the steward of the grass picking house, and the remaining eighteen people are exactly in groups of two. Liu Yuru and Yang Yatou were placed in a group.

Yesterday, Wang Cailian and Wang Ren planned to rectify Liu Yuru behind their backs, and they were bumped into by Gao Jun, and Wang Ren was also whipped by Gao Jun for this. But these two people couldn't have imagined that it was the pastor in the ranch who beat him, Gao Jun rarely came to the ranch before, and he didn't go to a step like a horseshoe room, a grass picking room, etc., Wang Ren was a steward of a horse's palm room, such a small character really didn't know Gao Jun, let alone Wang Cailian.

She didn't realize that Wang Ren was beaten because she and Wang Ren were involved in Liu Yuru, so on the first day of work today, Steward Wang made the plan that she had already thought of. Liu Yuru is because of her outstanding appearance, Wang Cailian is afraid that she will steal her limelight; Yang Yatou is because she is young and fast-talking, and she also touched the taboo of Wang Cailian, who wants to be the only one in the grass picking house.

The position she arranged for these two people was very particular, so that Liu and Yang Yatou had to run a lot of unjust roads when they worked, and the tasks assigned by the two people were also the most difficult to choose.

Because she couldn't touch the details of the two people yesterday, Wang Cailian just tried it today, and saw that a day had passed, and there was nothing abnormal, and she decided that the two people she rectified had no background, so she put her mind at ease.

Looking at Liu Yuru and Yang Yatou with muddy water in their hands and hands, Wang Cailian said in her heart that this is not the most uncomfortable, and she will increase it tomorrow.

Yang Yatou is from Jiangzhou, she is a typical hot girl, and she has always dared to think and dare to do. She was assigned because a pair of scissors hinged a squirrel's crotch root, which not only wasted the boy's life, but also did not kill him.

After picking for a while, she looked up at the work in the hands of the people around her, and then looked at herself and Liu's, and it was obvious that Wang Cailian was eccentric. I have the heart to break my hands and not do it, and I am afraid that if I lose it to the Liu family, it will make the Liu family even more unbearable, so Yang Yatou has been holding back and keeping silent.

She saw that Liu was a person who had never done rough work, and she also saw that this woman was very different from the people around her, and she had a good impression of her when she met for the first time, so Yang Yatou always took the lead when she worked.

Look at the surrounding female shepherds who have finished their work one after another, and it's time to call it a day, but Wang Cailian said that those who haven't finished their work are not allowed to leave.

The ox cart from the village to pick up these people also arrived, and the old man who drove the cart saw that there were still two people left here, and he hesitated to leave these two people behind. Because it was nearly 20 miles from the grass picking house to the village, they had to walk back on foot.

But the female shepherds who had already climbed into the car and grabbed a good position urged one by one, seeing that the steward Wang Cailian had no intention of not letting go, so they set up the ox cart and left.

Wang Cailian looked at the two people covered in mud here, pursed her mouth, bypassed the two haystacks, and went to the horseshoe room.

Liu Yuru has learned the taste of fatigue today.

From this day on, she puts the word fatigue alongside cold, hunger, and loneliness, juxtaposing them as the greatest test of a woman. She was doing it there, occasionally saying something to Yang Yatou, "Sister, why don't you go back." ”

Yang Yatou said, "That's not good, I'm scared to go back alone." Speaking of which, there was no one else, and he opened his mouth to scold the king steward, "This ****, relying on finding a backer, is not soft at all to rectify my aunt and grandmother!" ”

Liu has always had a premonition in her heart, although this premonition is not clear, and there is no conclusive promise as evidence, but it has always been vaguely existing, and this premonition can be said to be the hope that she will be able to silently persist in this day.

That is: the tall man will definitely come.

Yang Yatou was scolding Steward Wang, when she saw two horses galloping in front of her in the night, and immediately two men jumped off their horses and walked towards them with agility.

Liu Yuru and Yang Yatou's clothes were covered with muddy water, plus they sweated during the day and the evening breeze blew, and their bodies felt cold. The two men watched with some teeth fighting as the two men walked from the darkness to the shadows of the lamp.

Yang Yatou's mouth opened wide in surprise, and she watched the young man in the dark green official robe walk up to Liu's in a few steps, and didn't speak, looking at Liu's clothes that had already been soaked with sweat, and took off the green robe and draped it on Liu Yuru's body. After pulling her up, he reached out and took out a silk scarf from his arms, and wrapped Liu Shi with his head and face, only exposing his two eyes.

Liu obediently let him do this to himself, and without saying a word, he helped him up and sat down to the side, and watched him walk to the pile of rotten grass that they had not finished, and picked it up very quickly.

The other man seemed to be his entourage, which could be seen at a glance by Yang Yatou's cleverness, because she saw Feng Zheng running up almost immediately after him, picking grass with the man.

"Hey, I said, aren't you working hot?" Yang Yatou asked Feng Zheng with a big grin.

The young man was stunned all of a sudden. Speaking from the heart, Feng Zheng was only in his twenties, and he had never been in contact with a young woman, so he didn't know what she meant by this for a while.

Feng Zheng just watched Master Gao do it himself, so he couldn't stand there and watch by himself, right? So come down and help the tall man to do it together.

Master Gao listened to Yang Yatou's words, turned around and said, "Feng Zheng, you have to learn from me." He suddenly woke up, immediately took off his coat, and also draped it on Yang Yatou's body.

Liu didn't speak, just watched them work, and she compared every movement of the tall man in front of her with the shadow of Hou Jun building the firewood house that day.

Gradually, she noticed that the two images did not coincide unexpectedly.

She suddenly thought, "Ah, it seems that nothing has happened!" Thinking about it, a wave of sleepiness suddenly hit me.

And Yang Yatou only asked Feng Zheng one sentence, "Who is the best between you and the stewards of each room here?" Feng Zheng couldn't answer for a while, because yesterday Master Gao said that he shouldn't do his horse platoon, let him follow him, so what is he now?

It was the tall man who replied on his behalf, "Yesterday he took a horsewhip and whipped two stewards. Gao Jun put what he had done on Feng Zheng's body. Yang Yatou cheered and almost jumped up.

She asked Gao Yi, "Then what kind of official are you?" This time it was Feng Zheng who replied, "The county order of Jiaohe is quite polite to Lord Changshi of Xizhou, and Lord Changshi is even more polite to our adult, this adult is our Liu Zhongmu's pastoral supervisor Gao!" ”

Of course, the two men worked quickly, and after a while, they were finished, and Yang Yatou asked, "You are such a big official and also do the work of picking grass?" Gao Jun led the horse over and said, "I have to do it, seeing that you two beautiful women haven't left so late, how can I, as a pastoral supervisor, care?" ”

Liu Yuru was tired after a day's work, and Gao Jun found that she had fallen asleep sitting crookedly on the grass. Gao Jun stretched out his hand to pick her up, stepped lightly onto the horse, and took the lead in slowly galloping out.

Yang Yatou didn't understand what Lord Gao meant by what she said just now, but she glanced at Feng Zheng, "What, boy, do you dare not learn from you adults?" Feng Zheng was provoked by her, and he didn't say anything, picked her up and put her on horseback, and then flew on the horse, and the two rode a horse together, and also galloped in the direction of the village.